Best Grandparents Sayings
296 Grandparents quotes by 260 unique authors
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Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much…
— Prince Harry
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Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.
— Bruce Feiler
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In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who…
— Iris Johansen
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents,…
— Karrie Webb
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And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I…
— Philippe Perrin
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly…
— Adam Braun
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I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There…
— Emir Kusturica
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It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in…
— Ellen Goodman
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I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car…
— Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
— Lee Greenwood
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Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but…
— Blythe Danner
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I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my…
— Tom Hayden
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It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part…
— Kate Morton
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It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another…
— Nick Cave
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Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children are prepared for…
— Sharon Lechter
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I've got my wife. I've got my four kids. I've got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It's all you need. I'd rather…
— David Beckham
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive…
— Alan Lightman
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When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
— Ogden Nash
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Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men,…
— Clayton Christensen
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Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my…
— Christian Lacroix
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Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards…
— Compay Segundo
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Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other 'grown-ups…
— Hillary Clinton
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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human…
— Eric Hoffer
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We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors…
— Roy Sesana
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We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.
— Jane Fonda
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